At first they came for the smokers but I did not speak out as I did not smoke. Then they came for the binge drinkers but I said nothing as I did not binge. Now they have an obesity strategy.

Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Eat, drink and be merry

Gillian McKeith has come in for some stick over her "PhD" in a wonderful hatchet job by Ben Goldacre. My real beef with her is her implication that fat and sin are synonymous as she lays into the participants in her show. I'm with the fatties. Stuff your liquidised celery and cucumber juice Gillian, fat is the new thin.

The result; I am fat and she is rich. Hmm…

(I also spent thousands of years doing a real PhD part-time, but at least I can call myself Dr all the time and she now can't.)

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This is the work avoidance strategy and ego trip of Peter Ryley, who has just retired, despite being far too young, from working in lifelong learning, latterly at the University of Hull, and from teaching part-time at Manchester Metropolitan University. I live partly in Manchester and the rest of the time in Pelion, Greece. I continue to research and write on the history of Anarchism, and have frequent rants about the importance and current parlous state of adult education.